Showing posts with label Monstify. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monstify. Show all posts

10.11.10

Monster Crochet

The lovely Ayda Anlagan, creator of the magnificent Monstifiy and the fantastically gory crocheted Halloween window display at Fabrications on Broadway market, is running their beginners crochet session, Sunday 21st November, 2 - 4.30pm.



Learn the basics - how to hold the hook and wool, create a chain the length of your body.

Then the double and treble stitch. Go back + forth or round + round in circles!

Crochet is wonderfully free style, great for 3d objects, flowers, lacey borders, granny blankets, joining and decorating your knitting and much much more!


The session costs £20 / £15 conc. Max of 15. Booking required.

Want to know how to Book? Then see below!!

* E-mail textiles@fabrications1.co.uk indicating which type of class and the date(s) you're interested in with your name and contact telephone number

* or call by or telephone Fabrications Tues - Fri 12-5pm or Sat 10-5.30pm
and your details can be added to the booking form

* We will then confirm your place and request payment. This can be done either in person at the shop, over the phone or via cheque in the post!

* If you are unable to attend the class, please try to give 1 week's notice to qualify for a credit note to use on another class or in the shop. Failing this, you may send someone else to take your place!

8.9.10

The Puff & Flock Shop

Only 2 weeks to go until the launch of the pop up Puff & Flock shop at DesignersBlock in London!!!! In the meantime we will be giving you a sneak preview of some of the delights we will be stocking so watch this space. If you are interested in any of the products shown and would like some more information then please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@puffandflock.com or the designer directly.

First up is Monstify by Ayda Anlagan, a sell out at the Puff & Flock shop at DesignersBlock in Milan, April 2010!




Monstify is a range of hand made crochet eyeballs designed to instantly turn any everyday object into a monster! Made to order in any color or available to pick up at the Puff & Flock shop in a couple of weeks, these eyes will bring inanimate objects to life and give them expression. The eyes are interchangeable so you can mix and match any color combination you choose. Fitted with a broach pin, Monstify eyes are a great gift for children and fun loving adults alike.



For more information on the product, please contact: info@monstify.com

Ayda Anlagan is a London based industrial designer who enjoys incorporating humour in her products. After graduating from Middle East Technical University in Turkey she moved to London and completed her MA in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. She came up with the concept for Monstify while indulging in her hobby of making monster finger puppets for her friends and their children as gifts.

After successfully exhibiting at Milan she decided to turn it into a business and is currently working towards using Monstify as a means to establishing a fair trade product range that will be manufactured by Indian women in the crafts. Since her graduation Ayda has won a Royal Society of the Arts Award, started up a small business and has been working on socially responsive projects with organizations such as Age Concern, Hackney and The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Ayda Anlagan
www.aydaanlagan.com